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Mfg date 12/31/11 eh? Looks like an H25 without a tuner. I still dont see why anyone would want one over an H25, since they cost the same, and would rob a tuner from the HR34...but who knows.

My thought's, exactly. Especially if you still have to pay an "addtitional TV" fee. But barring that, I guess I might be able to see some advantage of a simple, clean extension of the HMC system (once they get the "bugs" out).

You can do the same thing on the H25 by hitting RECORD,LIST,PLAY as far as trick play. So it boils down to saving DirecTv money at the subscribers expense?

It was always designed to be used with RVU clients however the server just came out prior to the clients so HD receivers have been used. There's nothing stopping this from happening in the future either.

So yes the whole point of this machine was to save money on equipment costs. At the customers expense I'm assuming you mean at the expense of live tuners in which case yes because that was always the design of the machine since day 1.

Mfg date 12/31/11 eh? Looks like an H25 without a tuner. I still dont see why anyone would want one over an H25, since they cost the same, and would rob a tuner from the HR34...but who knows.

I agree. With a SWiM 8 you can still have the HR34 plus 3 additional tuners without taking one away from the HR34. Just wait until a family is recording 3, 4, 5 things at once and the wife and kids want to watch something else in their rooms. Oh sorry, you can't, all the tuners are being used.

Let's say the average home has 1 HD DVR and 3 non DVR's. The HMC has the exact same tuner count now but can record more shows and give trick play to all rooms. Average consumers don't have the huge setups that some people have on here. This was designed with those people in mind.

Let's say the average home has 1 HD DVR and 3 non DVR's. The HMC has the exact same tuner count now but can record more shows and give trick play to all rooms. Average consumers don't have the huge setups that some people have on here. This was designed with those people in mind.

Right, and it's an option. It doesn't require it, like a Hopper only working with Joeys.